Word watching answers: December 6

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(b) A person who indulges in daydreams. One who imagines a more adventurous or enjoyable life for himself than he actually leads. The characteristics of such a person. The eponym of Walter Mitty, the hero of James Thurber’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (in The New Yorker, 1939).

DINGO

(a) The wild, or semi-domesticated dog of Australia, Canis dingo. The native Australian name in an obsolete dialect of New South Wales. 1868: “The fierce dingo’s hideous eye.”

JIPPER

(c) Gravy. Dripping. Stew. 1886: “Thee’st lat all the jipper out of the pudden.”

Openings pioneer
A consistent feature of the early games of grandmaster Mark Taimanov, who
sadly passed away last week at the age of 90, was his espousal of dynamic
systems that would have been anathema to the ancient champions of a
classical bent